World Biographical Information System Online

WBIS Online is the most comprehensive biographical database available, providing biographical information on over 6 Million people from the 8th century B.C. to the present. Included are 8.5 million digital facsimile articles from biographical reference works. Each Biographical Archive covers a different language and cultural area. For the individual archives the original texts of biographical articles from various reference works were taken and facsimile reproductions made. In WBIS Online these articles are presented as exact copies of the original articles. WBIS Online offers worldwide biographical information on persons covered in reference sources published from the 16th century to the end of the 20th century. The 30 source archives are listed below:

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• Afrikanisches Biographisches Archiv (AfBA)
  = African Biographical Archive
  
• Amerikanisches Biographisches Archiv (ABA I, I S, II, II S, III)
  = American Biographical Archive
  
• Arabisch-Islamisches Biographisches Archiv (AIBA I, II)
  = Arab-Islamic Biographical Archive
  
• Australasiatisches Biographisches Archiv (ANZO-BA, S)
  = Australasian Biographical Archive
  
• Baltisches Biographisches Archiv (BaBA I, II)
  = Baltic Biographical Archive
  
• Biographisches Archiv der Antike (BAA)
  = Biographical Archive of the Classical World
  
• Biographisches Archiv der Benelux-Laender (BAB I, II)
  = Biografisch Archief van de Benelux
  
• Biographisches Archiv der Sowjetunion (BaSU)
  = Biographical Archive of the Soviet Union
  
• Biographisches Archiv des Christentums (ChrBA)
  = Biographical Archive of Christianity
  
• Biographisches Archiv des Mittelalters (BAMA)
  = Biographical Archive of the Middle Ages
  
• Britisches Biographisches Archiv (BBA I, II, III)
  = British Biographical Archive
  
• Chinesisches Biographisches Archiv (CBA)
  = Chinese Biographical Archive
  
• Deutsches Biographisches Archiv (DBA)
  = German Biographical Archive
  

[The DBA is freely accesible only in some parts of Germany! Only research, no full texts]

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• Franzoesisches Biographisches Archiv (ABF I, II, III)
  = Archives Biographiques Francaises
  
• Griechisches Biographisches Archiv (GBA)
  = Greek Biographical Archive
  
• Indisches Biographisches Archiv (IBA)
  = Indian Biographical Archive
  
• Italienisches Biographisches Archiv (ABI I, II, IIS, III, IV)
  = Archivio Biografico Italiano
  
• Japanisches Biographisches Archiv (JaBA)
  = Japanese Biographical Archive
  
• Juedisches Biographisches Archiv (JBA I, I S, II)
  = Jewish Biographical Archive
  
• Kanadisches Biographisches Archiv (CaBA)
  = Canadian Biographical Archive
  
• Koreanisches Biographisches Archiv (KBA)
  = Korean Biographical Archive
  
• Polnisches Biographisches Archiv (PAB I, I S, II, II S)
  = Polskie Archiwum Biograficzne
  
• Russisches Biographisches Archiv (RBA, S)
  = Russian Biographical Archive
  
• Skandinavisches Biographisches Archiv (SBA I, II)
  = Scandinavian Biographical Archive
  
• Spanisches, Portugiesisches und Iberoamerikanisches Biographisches Archiv (ABEPI I, II, III, IV)
  = Archivo Biografico de Espana, Portugal e Iberoamarica
  
• Suedostasiatisches Biographisches Archiv (SEABA)
  = South-East Asian Biographical Archive
  
• Suedosteuropaeisches Biographisches Archiv (SOBA)
  = South-East European Biographical Archive
  
• Tschechisches und Slowakisches Biographisches Archiv (CSBA)
  = Cesky Biograficky Archiv a Slovensky Biograficky Archiv
  
• Tuerkisches Biographisches Archiv (TBA)
  = Turkish Biographical Archive
  
• Ungarisches Biographisches Archiv (UBA)
  = Hungarian Biographical Archive
  

The World Biographical Index is also integrated. It provides access to the biographical data of 57 Archives.